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Career Development

1. Cultivate a new life culture that balances humanities and science

        
        Technology and economy have become the mainstream of current culture, while the humanistic spirit is very weak. The balance between the two has been lost. Especially in recent years, human beings have increasingly changed and destroyed the environment, which has endangered the quality of human life and even the living space of human beings. Therefore, there is an urgent need to integrate the history and geography of time and space to cultivate and create the living culture of the new generation.

        Geography is the science of studying human living space, exploring the distribution and configuration of various human living spaces, the relationship between people and land, and regional characteristics. History is the science of studying human life time, exploring the cultural heritage and pros and cons of human life in the past at various levels such as humanities, nature, society, regions, families, and individuals.

2. Based on the history and geography major, integrate history and geography, and move towards cultural and creative industries

        
        History and geography have long since become independent disciplines. At present, they are also academic fields in China, with their own majors and independent research, with little negotiation or interaction. But according to the facts, these two disciplines are closely related to each other.

        History is the study of human past activities, and geographical space is the stage of human history. The importance of geographical factors in historical evolution has always been widely recognized by historians. Geography studies the relationship between human activities on the earth's surface and its environment. From the perspective of human-land interaction, the spatial scope of its research includes: the space that humans have set foot in in the past, which is related to the historical process; the space that humans have set foot in now, It is also related to the accumulation and influence of history; the space that humans will enter, this involves the accumulation of history and the foresight of historical experience. Therefore, the importance of historical factors in the geographical environment has always been widely recognized by geographers. It shows that the research fields of history and geography are deeply overlapping, and the research work is also deeply interactive.

        Judging from the current domestic history and geography research results, geographical issues are often ignored in historical research, and their processing lacks the support of geographical professional knowledge and research methods. In geographical research, historical issues have not yet received full attention, and their handling methods lack the support of historical professional knowledge and research methods. In view of this, the master's degree class in this department will promote the professional complementarity of history and geography research in the interactive relationship between history and geography teaching and research, and cultivate research talents with complementary history and geography majors. It is expected to gather talents so that they can draw on their personal interests. Give full play to the complementary abilities of history and geography majors with potential, continue to study, and make new contributions to the fields of geography and history research.

        Integration is a long-term work, and the department has taken gradual steps, so the educational goals of the department are: based on the history and geography major → integrating history and geography → moving toward cultural and creative industries.

3. Cultivate research and application talents

        
        In terms of research talent. Based on the resources of the Department of History and Geography, the Department’s undergraduate and master’s programs work to cultivate outstanding research talents in two directions: one is to cultivate history and geography research talents in the professional division of labor, and the other is to combine history and geography. Combining the development of historical and geographical integrated research talents. 

        In terms of applied talents. Students in the undergraduate department cooperate with the resources of the school and take tutoring courses in supplementary departments for inter-disciplinary integration to cultivate teachers of history, geography and social humanities courses in primary and secondary schools, as well as talents needed by the cultural and mass communication fields. As for the master's classes in this department and the master's special classes and master's credit classes that will be opened in the future, they have the potential to have multiple functions:

(1) In the current nine-year implementation of consistent social field teaching in China, existing primary and secondary school teachers all have good professional training, but their ability to teach the integration and application of history, geography, and civics subjects is generally obviously insufficient. This department uses existing historical and geographical resources and cooperates with the civics course to provide a learning channel to implement the spirit of this new course.

(2) The master's degree program also allows people in the cultural and communication fields to take the exam and further their studies, and the talents trained can also enter the cultural and communication fields to work.

(3) Local cultural work has emerged in recent years. Local history and landscape play a key role in this work. The required academic qualifications are exactly the "complementarity of history and geography majors" emphasized in the previous article. Therefore, this department specializes in master's degree courses. To attract local cultural workers to take the examination for further studies
 

(4) The current construction of social life is tending towards the overall construction of communities, and there is an urgent need for professionally trained talents to conduct basic surveys of local natural and cultural assets and resources, care for and participate in urban and rural planning, and environmental conservation and assessment In this work, "complementary history and geography majors" can also cultivate such talents. With the rise of globalization, the tourism industry has become a part of daily life. "Complementarity of history and geography majors" will attract tour guides to apply for the exam, thereby improving their professional quality.